Email 03 Dec 2006
Excerpts from Sister Welker's email:
hello my beautiful parents: oh how i miss you and love you so much: this week passed by sooo sooo fast: i cant believe it: . . . i cant believe that it is only eight degrees in utah: eek: i am scared to return: i am really enjoying the eighty degree plus weather here: i am getting really tan: i love it: my hair is turning blond thought: i am not really enjoying that: but hey it is a change: when i get home i need to definitely go get my hair done: it is not the same length or color: but i am not going to worry about it right now: i usually wear it in a pony tail anyways because it is so hot:. . . have you guys talked in church yet? i am scared to go to a big utah ward again: i liked the one in hawaii but i am just going to go with a good attitude: well mom you said that i cannot open my gifts until christmas so i just want to say that if you happen to get a gift in the mail from someone you cant open it until christmas too: okay: i am getting really excited to talk to you in just three weeks: yay: it feels like forever since we last talked: i am having family withdrawls: well this week we helped our branch start building a house for a sister in the branch: she lives in this tiny little squat: you cant even move around in the house: but she was too poor to finish the house her husband started before he died: so she has been living in the squat: but the church just passed her welfare help request so we started building: oh man is it hard work: we were trying to work in the yard trying to dig holes for the plumbing pipes and what not: i was pikking and shoveling like no other: it was hard work: but i really enjoyed it: i really felt like someone was helping me because i had a lot more strength than i ever had before: it felt like someone was just beside me helping me do the work: it was a great feeling: it was for a good cause too: we left with smiles on our faces and the next day even though we were so sore we had smiles on our faces when the sister bore her testimony at church of her gratefulness of all that helped: it was a great experience: the house is not done we are going to continue to help each weekend until it is done: hopefully before christmas: we shall see: we have a branch christmas party the 16 every auxillary is doing a dance: there is a dance tahitian; melanesian; the haka: and guess what the missionaries get to do: a country line dance: i get to teach the missionaries it to because i am the only one who knows country line dancing: it should be fun: i am excited: there is just four of us missionaries so it should be funny: well my family that is all that happened this week: i hope you have an amazing week: i love you all bunches: hugs and bisous:
hello my beautiful parents: oh how i miss you and love you so much: this week passed by sooo sooo fast: i cant believe it: . . . i cant believe that it is only eight degrees in utah: eek: i am scared to return: i am really enjoying the eighty degree plus weather here: i am getting really tan: i love it: my hair is turning blond thought: i am not really enjoying that: but hey it is a change: when i get home i need to definitely go get my hair done: it is not the same length or color: but i am not going to worry about it right now: i usually wear it in a pony tail anyways because it is so hot:. . . have you guys talked in church yet? i am scared to go to a big utah ward again: i liked the one in hawaii but i am just going to go with a good attitude: well mom you said that i cannot open my gifts until christmas so i just want to say that if you happen to get a gift in the mail from someone you cant open it until christmas too: okay: i am getting really excited to talk to you in just three weeks: yay: it feels like forever since we last talked: i am having family withdrawls: well this week we helped our branch start building a house for a sister in the branch: she lives in this tiny little squat: you cant even move around in the house: but she was too poor to finish the house her husband started before he died: so she has been living in the squat: but the church just passed her welfare help request so we started building: oh man is it hard work: we were trying to work in the yard trying to dig holes for the plumbing pipes and what not: i was pikking and shoveling like no other: it was hard work: but i really enjoyed it: i really felt like someone was helping me because i had a lot more strength than i ever had before: it felt like someone was just beside me helping me do the work: it was a great feeling: it was for a good cause too: we left with smiles on our faces and the next day even though we were so sore we had smiles on our faces when the sister bore her testimony at church of her gratefulness of all that helped: it was a great experience: the house is not done we are going to continue to help each weekend until it is done: hopefully before christmas: we shall see: we have a branch christmas party the 16 every auxillary is doing a dance: there is a dance tahitian; melanesian; the haka: and guess what the missionaries get to do: a country line dance: i get to teach the missionaries it to because i am the only one who knows country line dancing: it should be fun: i am excited: there is just four of us missionaries so it should be funny: well my family that is all that happened this week: i hope you have an amazing week: i love you all bunches: hugs and bisous:
posted by Sister Alicia Welker at 12/05/2006
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